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The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism

The CNCL Team — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 20:14:11 +0000

Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted in the U.S., any reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime.

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The Puppets and the Puppet Masters

The CNCL Team — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 02:05:15 +0000

The judicial proceedings against Julian Assange give a faux legality to the state persecution of the most important and courageous journalist of our generation.

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New Zealand’s PM Wants More Online Censorship For The War In Ukraine

The CNCL Team — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:59:54 +0000

New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern continued her crusade for the expansion of internet censorship during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, this time using the war in Ukraine.

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Assange Is Doing His Most Important Work Yet

The CNCL Team — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 04:28:57 +0000

British Home Secretary Priti Patel has authorized the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to be tried under the Espionage Act in a case which seeks to set a legal precedent for the prosecution of any publisher or journalist, anywhere in the world, who reports inconvenient truths about the US empire.

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Russia-Ukraine War: George Bush’s Admission of His Crimes in Iraq Was No ‘Gaffe’

The CNCL Team — Fri, 27 May 2022 01:44:38 +0000

The former president’s confusion over the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine should lead to western soul-searching, not mirth.

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They’re Worried About The Spread Of Information, Not Disinformation

The CNCL Team — Mon, 23 May 2022 22:57:56 +0000

We are not being protected by a compassionate alliance of corporations and governments who only want us to know the truth, we are being manipulated and oppressed by an oligarchic empire that wants us to believe lies. That’s why they’re locking up Assange, that’s why they’re censoring the internet, that’s why they’re filling our minds with propaganda, and that’s why we can’t let them win.

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Israel’s PR Problem, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

The CNCL Team — Sat, 14 May 2022 23:55:54 +0000

Israel's mounting PR crisis boils down to the fact that its violence and oppression isn't happening in some far off land as in the case with US wars, it's happening right at home surrounded by video cameras and enforced by police and soldiers who are not adept PR spinmeisters.

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Elon Musk Isn’t a Threat to Society’s Health. All Billionaires Are

The CNCL Team — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 22:59:03 +0000

The mega-rich buy up media outlets precisely because a lie is more likely to fly than the truth – including the lie that they are invaluable.

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Liberals Are Adopting an Old Soviet Tactic: Painting Opponents as Mentally Ill

The CNCL Team — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 19:47:24 +0000

The pathologization of dissent is not going away. It will intensify as neoliberalism faces crisis after crisis and social polarization grows. Those who claim to be liberals defending democracy will soon be only too ready to snuff it out.

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Hedges: Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death

The CNCL Team — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 09:30:19 +0000

The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives during the Cold War and dominates our lives now.

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Social Media Giants Allow Hate Speech Against Russia but Silence Israel’s Critics

The CNCL Team — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 21:40:25 +0000

Silicon Valley's decision to allow anti-Russia threats reveals it as little more than a propaganda arm of the West

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Chris Hedges: Worthy and Unworthy Victims

The CNCL Team — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 06:09:41 +0000

Rulers divide the world into worthy and unworthy victims, those we are allowed to pity, such as Ukrainians enduring the hell of modern warfare, and those whose suffering is minimized, dismissed, or ignored. The terror we and our allies carry out against Iraqi, Palestinian, Syrian, Libyan, Somali and Yemeni civilians is part of the regrettable cost of war.

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